Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 10 | Daily Health Service

I Daily Health Service Physical Defects No 10 Handicap to Many Workers orl By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American n Medical A Association and of the Health Magazine The person in full po possession Sion c. of all his faculties may have a difficult time finding work now but those who are handicapped by some weakness in sight hearing by the absence of limbs or fingers by a disease of the heart or by some similar disturbance disturbance disturb disturb- ance anc have a much more serious problem probe lem even in good times When 20 per cent of all workers arc are unemployed ed a much larger percentage percentage per per- of handicapped workers are arc likely to be unemployed It Il has been beene e estimated that there are in the thc United States Slates at least workers who have lave handicaps The handicapped worker has to I have highly specialized work There I Iare arc are many occupations that a one one- armed man can do satisfactorily but there are many others that only a aman aman aman man with two arms can do successfully successfully success success- fully l- l For lor or example the motor car is is a highly complicated machine A blind blindman blindman blindman man cannot run one because he cannot cannot cannot can can- not see sec A deaf dear man may drive but may have great trouble in crowded traffic or when traveling at a high speed A man with one leg of off may be beable beable beable able to drive a motor car satisfactorily but a man with an arm of off might have considerable difficulty Social service today has developed as specialists persons capable of placing workers In positions for which they are arc fitted Much more mores is s to be gained by placing the peron per per- son on immediately in such a job than thanin thanin thann in n trying him in a half dozen jobs with the Idea that he may be trained to o do one of them satisfactorily It has been estimated that the largest manufacturers of motor cars carsin carsin in n the United States employed at one onetime onetime time ime handicapped people These people were not employed on the bails basis ba ba- ba- ba sis ils that their employment was a char- char ity ly They were employed because they could do their jobs satisfactorily satisfactorily and could earn the money that was sas paid to them Only proper placement In the positions positions po- po enabled them to hold the jobs against the natural competition that came ame from other persons equipped with all their physical forces It is a mistake to attempt to find findor for or handicapped persons new or strange occupations More than 80 per cent of them can be placed in jobs of ordinary Industries for which their handicap does not disqualify them hem Sometimes a little extra training draining may be necessary but that can jan be had in special schools or evenin even evenin evenin in apprenticeships hips to the occupations which they ultimately plan to tc fill